Means for alining the pieces of a typographical line in a line-producing machine.



B. BLOOH.

MEANS FOR ALINING THE PIECES Of A TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE IN A LINE PRODUCINGMACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20, 1914.

Patented Dec. 1,1914.

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BRUNO BLOCK, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALEBLINOTYYPECOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

A TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE IN A LIhlTE-E'ROD'UCING 1VLACI-IINE.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914:.

Original application filed December 10, 1913, Serial No. 805,724.Divided and this applicationfilea April 20, 1914. Serial No. 833,083.

ently of each other till all their characters register with each otherhorizontally in the sense that the feet of all the letters in a printedline register with each other hor1 zontally, is effected by making ashoulder on the mold in which the body of the desired line will be cast,overlie a lug projecting from the then opposite edge of each matrix, thedimensions of a lug and the distance between it and the character, beingcommon to all the matrices in the font, and thereupon making the organof the machine which carries and presents the matrices in the castingposition, pull them all upward by direct contact till all the lugs arein equally close contact with the said shoulder, and maintain that pulluntil the said matrices are clamped by other means.

the presenting motion ust referred to is a dropping one down to astationary abut ment, the length of it beingrcgulated by a set screwadjustable in the presenting organ in the direction of its notiom'thenose of the screw being the part of the organ that actually bears uponthe abutment. This screw has to be so adjusted so that the composed lineof characters is presented at a level just below the true castingposition, to allow of the upward motion thereinto caused by thedescribed pull on the matrices. \Vhen the matrices have two charactersone above the other in the same cdge,thc mold having two shoulderslikewise one above the other, the bottom shoulder overlies the lugsiofthe matrices whose top'characters are in the casting position'and thetop shoulder overlies the lugs of the matrices whose bottom charactersare in the casting positionf Either both these shoulders areincorporated with a mold block detachable from a mold carrier or socalled mold wheel and having the mold proper in it, or the bottomshoulder is constituted by the top face of a groove in a detachableplate fixed to the front face of the mold block. But the pulling actionof the presenting organ is not affected by the number of characters ineach matrix.

If the matrices and casting apparatus of the machine just referred to,are replaced,

respectively, by type dies and a device for supplying a stereotypefisflong, the type dies being made to indent the latter, the machine wouldbe one making stereotype matrices. At the same time, it together withthe one above mentioned, would be a line producing machine. Thepresentinvention is applicable to any such line producing machineequipped with pieces having one or a plurality of characters. Itconsistsin each character intaglio or cameo as the case may be having analining lug limited to itself and projecting from that edge of the piecewhich carries the said character, the improved pieces calling for andadapted to be used in conjunction with means in part incorporate withand in part connected with the mold block for alining the composedcharacters through the respective alining lugs by direct contact withthe latter, and automatic means which may be independent of thepresenting organ, for actuating the said alining means, neither the saidmeans nor thesaid automatic means forming any part of the presentinvention. but both constituting the subject matter of a pending patentapplication 805724 filed December 10th 1913, which has resulted. inPatent No. 3,105,612 dated August 4th, 1914. The practical advantagesconferred by the two inventions are, first, greater accuracyinalinement, inasmueh as each character is alined independently of theother characters on the same matrix, and second, any failure to adjustthe presenting position of the presenting organ with reference to thecasting position of themold proper, will not necessarily prevent exacta-linement.

used hiclmees prejecting from each 11s eppesle edge A 'zypogmphlcalpleee having 1n one 31 n aiming portion situated Within its i bedyWldfll adapted to engage the eeiepez'etmg elmmg surface 01? a mold.

character and. formed in said edge In witnew whereof I have hereunto setmy hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

BRUNO BLOGH. Witnesses:

HENRY HABPER, W'OLDEMAR HAUP'I.

